Text taken from LiterNet.ro | author: Adrian Țion

The licentious language on stage spreads and expands like ringworm on velvety skin. Speech is filled with viruses, artistic consciousness is filled with amazement. Seniors reject the insolence of language, they vehemently detest it, embarrassed, disgusted. Young people adopt it and use it as a form of rebellion against all dogmas and coercive norms. But to use this filthy language, which has become the norm of juvenile arrogance (also a norm in reverse!), to penetrate the universe of feelings and emotions of today's teenagers, seems to me an act of extreme courage, violent and aesthetically unapproved, which breaks the patterns of theatrical convention into enough disapproving fragments. Obviously, I denounced my age, but also the rigor as a norm (another norm!) of evaluating the theatrical act.

Text taken from LiterNet.ro | author: Mihai Brezeanu

Petre Ghimbășan steps onto the stage, coming towards the audience. He walks around the empty frame/skeleton of the house that will keep shrinking throughout the show (scenography: Andreea Săndulescu) and looks at the spectators. Some don't even notice him. The lights in the hall are still on, the stage spotlights (lighting design: Cristian Niculescu) haven't entered their role yet. In fact, Petre Ghimbășan hasn't entered his role yet either. Only in a few moments will he gradually become Vania.

text taken from bookhub.ro / author: Gabriel Nicolae (CN "Mihai Eminescu" Buzău)

The last show of the 12th edition of the Young Theatre Festival proved brilliant through the director's vision and the actors' performances, through the scenery and costumes. IL Caragiale's play, the director proves to us Vlad Trifas, is not dated. It can be brought without being essentially modified, with ingenuity, at the level of the message, into the deepest topicality.

text taken from bookhub.ro / author: Bianca Ioana Lavinia Cazan (12th grade, CN "BP Hasdeu" Buzau)

The evening I saw the show D'ale carnavalului, directed by Vlad Trifaș, was one of those theatrical experiences that completely takes you out of your daily routine. Far from a simple retelling of the classic text, Trifaș manages to reinvent it, bringing it into the present through subtle but meaningful means.

text taken from bookhub.ro / author: Adriana Stoica (grade 9 D, "BP Hasdeu" National College, Buzau)

The show that concluded the twelfth edition of the "Young Theatre Week" festival, organized by the "George Ciprian" Theatre in Buzău, was Carnival's gentlemen, a comedy by Ion Luca Caragiale, which came to life thanks to his direction Vlad Trifas, performed by the band from "Queen Maria" Theater, Oradea.

Text taken from bookhub.ro / author: Ștefania-Emilia Bucur (grade 9 D, National College "BP Hasdeu" Buzău)

The last evening of the "Young Theatre Week" festival ended on an explosive note, full of humor and energy, with the staging of the play D'ale carnavalului by IL Caragiale, under the inspired direction of Vlad Trifaș. The hall was packed, the audience coming in large numbers to taste the delicious world of Caragiale, and laughter and applause resounded throughout the performance.

Text taken from bookhub.ro / author: Alexia Olteanu (12th grade, "Mihai Eminescu" Primary School Buzău)

Some shows don't end at the magical moment of the curtain falling, the lights going out. They remain in your mind, like an echo that follows you. This is also the case with the show D'ale carnavalului by Ion Luca Caragiale, directed by Vlad Trifaș – a show that makes you laugh, but also prompts reflection – among what people do we live?! in what way do we live?!

Text taken from LiterNet.ro

„"Things I Know to be True" by Andrew Bovell, directed by Vlad Bălan, opened the 2025-2026 season of the "Regina Maria" Oradea Theater and is also one of those few shows that takes the risk of touching on areas that theater usually avoids.

Text taken from The Republic of Criticism / author: Tudor-Costin Sicomas

I am starting to travel around the country more and more. And this often leads to moments of reverie, joy, and simply happiness. But also to moments of envy (positive, to be honest), because I am discovering or rediscovering cities, places much more beautiful and richer than our "dear" capital. Two of these cities that I have rediscovered lately are Cluj and now, Oradea. At least in the case of the latter, I was truly enchanted by the beauty of the central area through which I walked and which took my thoughts and soul directly to Baroque Vienna and that of the early 20th century. The elegance of the buildings that combine that charged style whose name comes from Portuguese and the Secession style give Oradea an air of a story that cannot help but envelop you and carry you back in time.

Text taken from Family Magazine | author: Alexandru Jurcan

The long-awaited premiere at the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea took place on April 5 and 6 this year, 2025. It is about Shakespeare's Richard III, translated by Horia Gârbea - stage version by Alexandra Felseghi and Andrei Măjeri, with inserts from Henry VI. Directed by: Andrei Măjeri, who last year received the Uniter for the show Cine la ucis pe tata. Ambitious director, who has never disappointed.

Text taken from The Dramatic West | author: Doru Mareș

Richard III Andrei Măjeri's work outlines the geography of a series of couples, in turn generated by the doublet demonism – fascination. Taking the Shakespearean text, the one in Horia Gârbea's translation from the monumental Volceanov edition, published by Tracus Arte, the stage version worked on by the director together with Alexandra Felseghi, with inserts from Henry VI, brings to the stage all generations, actors and characters, from Luca Bran, a 10-year-old kid with a measured aplomb of naturalness (in the role of Richmond), and Robert Balint, only five years older and in a triple role (the crown princes, in the mirror during the adolescent reactivity generated by the primacy to the throne, but also a page), to the undisputed stars of the "Regina Maria" Theater in Oradea, Ioana Dragoș Gajdó and Richard Balint (in four roles quickly changed and with exceptional individualization). The key to the story (which was once a turbulent and extremely violent period in England, when the Hundred Years' War ended with the fall of Constantinople at the other end of Europe, only to have the War of the Roses begin just two years later, for another 32 years), which ends two years before the end of the conflict between the houses of Lancaster and York, is one that goes beyond factual history, to unfold almost Faustically, through the Richard - Buckingham couple, created by Petre Ghimbășan and Răzvan Vicoveanu. The first, a fascinating demon, a kind of Mephisto for whom crimes are both mischief and substantial strategy at the same time, the second a Faust without a portfolio, whose only emotion is the fascination exercised by Richard, coupled unacknowledgedly, if not unconsciously, with certain interests of rank and wealth, of exercising power according to the model of the manipulative idol.

Text taken from reșița.ro | author: Marian Apostol

On June 27, 2025, at 6:00 PM, the Reșița audience was invited to laugh, be silent, listen and applaud. The Regina Maria Theater in Oradea honored the New Wave International Theater Festival with one of its best productions: "The Accusative Genre", a tragicomedy directed by Mimi Brănescu, which brought to the Reșița stage an explosion of unspoken truths, cruel humor and authentic emotion. A show that demonstrated that theater can be, at the same time, a mirror, a wound and a balm.

Text taken fromLiterNet.ro | author: Mihai Brezeanu

En folkefiende / An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (1882). Ein Volksfeind / An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, version adapted by Thomas Ostermeier and Florian Borchmeyer and staged by the former at the Schaubühne, in Berlin, in 2012. Enemy of the People, the Ostermeier-Borchmeyer version, translated from English by Radu Iacoban and staged by him at the Regina Maria Theatre in Oradea in November 2024. The first title programmed within the 2025 edition of the Arad International New Theatre Festival.